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Kimmage defence funds reaches $10,000 after UCI summons

Former rider and anti-doping activist Paul Kimmage is being sued by the UCI (Richard Stanton)

By midday on Sunday, a fund to help former Sunday Times journalist Paul
Kimmage had already raised more than $10,000 (£6,120).

The Paul Kimmage Defence Fund was set up to
help defray his legal costs after the UCI, cycling’s governing body, began
legal proceedings against Kimmage.

On Wednesday a subpoena was delivered to the home of former Sunday Times
journalist Paul Kimmage. Issued in Vevey, near Geneva, it summoned Kimmage
to court in the town on December 12. The journalist is being sued by the
UCI, cycling’s governing body, after publishing online the full transcript
of an interview he conducted with the former cyclist Floyd Landis for The
Sunday Times Magazine in January 2011 and for an interview given by Kimmage
to L’Equipe in July of the same year.

UCI is claiming Swiss Fr8,000 (£5,200) in damages for its president, Pat
McQuaid; for its honorary president, Hein Verbruggen; and a